Akis Athanasiadis, Elena Velli, Giannis Gkrillas, and Vasilapostolos
Ouranis (FTs graduates, class 2015-16,) represented Greece and took part in
InnoJam++ at CeBIT – March 2016, Hanover – presented by SAP &
Volkswagen (
http://events.sap.com/university-alliances-hackathons/en/home
) with exciting challenges all around mobility of the future and Internet
of Things. Elena - as a team leader - was at final four. Their team
developed the app-prototype "Smart Repair Service" - An independent driver
who knows his/her car problem with a click and has the ability to fix it on
his/her own. The app was based on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

SAP-Internship with distinction for three graduates (FTs, class
2015-16).

In 2016, Elena Velli and Vasilapostolos Ouranis (FT graduates, class
2015-16), during their postgraduate studies in the MSc, won the 1st prize
in the NASA Space Apps Challenge contest in Greece for solving the
"Astrocize" challenge with the idea of the "Space Gravity Suite". The
International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration
focused on not only space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in
cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving
with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global
needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space. Every year the
contest has over 25 challenges in four areas: Earth, Outer Space, Humans
and Robotics. NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number
of government collaborators and over 200 local organizing teams across the
globe.

This year, as lead organizers of the NASA Space Apps Challenge contest in
Thessaloniki, Greece, their main goal was to give the opportunity to young
people to participate in one of the most innovative contest in the world
and solve some of the most challenging problems on earth by bring their
ideas into life. The contest was organized in collaboration with the
BIOMIMICRY GREECE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION and the MSc, and successfully
completed after three extremely intensive and full of creativity days, with
the participation of over 100 participants, 7 mentors and 3 judges.

In 2017, Akis Athanasiadis’s idea (FT graduate, class 2015-16) was chosen
to participate in the 5th round of Egg - Enter Grow Go, one of the most
prominent incubator in Greece organized by Eurobank and Corallia ( https://www.theegg.gr/en/ ). The
FinTech Startup that he founded is called CashBuddy and is one of the 30
business ideas chosen out of a total of 2,500 applications.

In Global Student Challenge of Supply Chain Finance Community (
https://www.globalstudentchallenge.org/
), Georgios Gravanis (FT student, class 2016-17) and his team achieved the
first place at National level and the ninth position in the International
Final that took place at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in The
Netherlands on April 2017.

Most of the 2016 graduates already work in well known companies such as: PwC, EY, Accenture, Delloitte, IBM, P&G etc.

Apply now online! Second cycle of applications. Deadline: June 30, 2017